Quotes About History

Sihon king of the Amorites His loving devotion endures forever.

I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your works; I consider the work of Your hands.

Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed.

What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

Is there a case where one can say, “Look, this is new”? It has already existed in the ages before us.

There is no remembrance of those who came before, and those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow after.

What exists has already been, and what will be has already been, for God will call to account what has passed.

There is no limit to all the people who were before them. Yet the successor will not be celebrated by those who come even later. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

The LORD will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since the day Ephraim separated from Judah—He will bring the king of Assyria.”

“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus?

And the LORD of Hosts will brandish a whip against them, as when He struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. He will raise His staff over the sea, as He did in Egypt.

Assyria has entered Aiath and passed through Migron, storing their supplies at Michmash.

All the kings of the nations lie in state, each in his own tomb.

In the year that King Ahaz died, this burden was received:

This is the burden against Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins.

Before the year that the chief commander, sent by Sargon king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and attacked and captured it,

Is this your jubilant city, whose origin is from antiquity, whose feet have taken her to settle far away?

Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose traders are princes, whose merchants are renowned on the earth?

Look at the land of the Chaldeans—a people now of no account. The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures; they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They brought it to ruin.

Woe to you, O Ariel, the city of Ariel where David camped! Year upon year let your festivals recur.

Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, went out to him.

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

Then Hilkiahís son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaphís son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rabshakeh.

When the Rabshakeh heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.